Web presentation tools and technologies provide the means to deliver any PowerPoint-based or similar type of visual presentation to an Internet-connected audience, no matter where participants are connecting from.
Most web presentation technologies, do away with requiring end users to have an installed copy of Microsoft PowerPoint and increasingly offer not just the ability to digitally distribute such presentations but also of creating them.
Photo credit: Teamslide
Until recently, sharing a PowerPoint presentation with other people, let alone doing this in real-time, was a major challenge. The size of a typical PowerPoint file didn't make it easy to send it via email, and incompatibilities between different versions of PowerPoint made the effort even more complex for the non-technical user.
PowerPoint itself allows the saving of any presentation as a set of Web pages. But while such output can be comfortably looked at on the computer where you have created it, it is not easy at all for a non-technically-savvy person to learn how to make those web pages show up at a specific address on the web where anyone else connected to the Internet can see them too.
Some of the limitations of exporting PowerPoint presentations into web pages directly from within PowerPoint may include:
- Animations including slide transitions, are not supported (however, animated GIF pictures do run and are supported).
- GIF pictures might not be animated if the presentation is saved with a screen size setting of 640 x 480 or less.
- The slide isn't scaled to fit the browser window. It stays at a fixed screen resolution based on the screen size setting selected when you published the presentation.
- The presentation cannot be viewed full screen.
- You cannot open or close frames.
- The active slide title is not highlighted in the outline pane.
- The mouse does not highlight elements in the outline pane.
- Sounds and movies do not play.
- Some graphics will not look as good as they do in Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 or later.
On the other hand newer software and web-based technologies now allow the easy-uploading of PowerPoint presentations to dedicated web presentation services and even the delivery of unattended, on-demand presentations having a custom web page address (URL). In other cases, software or web-based tools allow for the real-time delivery of your presentation to a number of attendees while integrating other complementary collaboration features.
Some of these tools integrate the optional ability to integrate live or recorded audio to accompany the presentation.
The key features that characterize web presentation technologies and delivery tools include:
- Automatic conversion to Flash
Providing an automatic conversion to the Flash file format guarantees the highest visual quality possible and seamless delivery across all types of browser and operating systems, while keeping speed and performance. Traditionally web presentation tools converted all PowerPoint slides into GIF or JPG images with notable limitations in the image quality and resolutions allowed for final delivery.
New, up-to-date services and tools convert PPT files into Flash. This makes the PPT file smaller, while maintaining all of the original quality. Not only. Flash converted presentations can be resized to any screen size without ever loosing quality, and can be viewed on PC, Mac and Linux type computers and across all major browsers available today.
See also: PowerPoint to Flash Conversion Tools
- Thumbnails Preview
This feature defines the ability to see a preview of upcoming slides in a presentation in order to help the presenter know ahead of time what will be coming up next. This is a very useful feature which alleviates the presenter pressure and makes it also easier to display slides in a non linear order.
- Live annotation
Live annotation is the ability to mark-up, annotate and write upon the slides being presented. Different tools offer different options, with some having none at all.
- Interactive annotation
Interactive annotation adds an extra level of interactivity to standard annotation allowing "attendees" to your presentation to add to the live annotation process themselves. Multiple users are allowed to use annotation tools simultaneously allowing for true visual interaction. Two great examples of interactive whiteboarding can be tasted by going to:
Imagination Cubed by GE
Depicto
- On-demand delivery
On-demand delivery connotates the ability to upload PowerPoint presentations to a specific service and having a pre-defined, unique web page address (URL) to give out to anyone wanting to view the presentation. Thanks to this feature anyone can watch presentations at their leisure, pace and with the ability to stop, rewing and playback any part of it.
- Audio
Some web presentation tools allow the live delivery of your audio together with the slides being presented. This can be achieved by using traditional teleconferencing services or by integrated VoIP technologies which allow yopu to talk through your computer and allows your presentation attendees to listen to you through their computer speakers.
Skype and its Skypecasting service is already a popular and effective solution to deliver accompanying audio to a web presentation with the minimum effort, and the maximum performance (plus Skypecasting is free). Some services also allow to add your voice over to any presentation uploaded, in a slide by slide fashion. In some cases this can be even performed over the phone.
- Multiple presentations pre-upload
The ability to let you upload multiple presentations before an event is always an advantage. Some services and tools offer this, while others don't.
- Interactive slide and gathering of viewer feedback
The ability to gather individual user feedback in a structured format on pre-designated slides. This means being able to gather answers to specific questions displayed on a slide, or expressing a critical judgement via visual sliders. Data is gathered in a database and made available for analysis at a later stage.
- Full screen
Full screen signifies the ability for presentation attendees to view your presentation in full-screen for maximum visual impact. Viewing a presentation in full screen also allows for a less distracting environment and can elicit greater focus and attention from participants.
- PowerPoint transitions preservation
The ability to preserve original PowerPoint-born visual transitions, animations and other effects. Generally Flash-based web presentation delivery tools preserve some of these animations and visual effects but with differing results. All other tools that still convert PowerPoint presentations into GIF or JPG files inevitably strip off all such animations and visual effects from PowerPoint presentations.
Web-based Presentation Delivery tools
Teamslide
Teamslide is a personal web application to actively present PowerPoint-type slides to one or more viewers over the web. It is live: you upload your presentation and control the show from your own browser while teamslide keeps the slides in sync across all participant's web browsers. Sales, marketing, advertising, finance and training professionals optimize their travel expenses and prioritize their leads.
- Automatic conversion to JPG/GIF or to Flash (specify JPG/GIF or Flash):
- Integrates live annotation: YES
- Preview thumbnails: NO
- Unattended delivery: NO
- Audio enabled (can add audio to presentation): YES
- Multiple presentations pre-upload: YES
- Interactive slide and gathering of viewer feedback: YES
- Full screen: NO
- PowerPoint Transition preservation: NO
- URL: http://www.teamslide.com/
- Cost: From $99(Single) to $799(10 users)
Our review:
Deliver Powerpoint Presentations On The Web: Teamslide
May 10, 2006
iVocalize
iVocalize enables interactive web conference meetings for today's distributed workforce, online seminars, e-learning classrooms and presentations to an audience spanning the globe. Features include synchronized web browsing, integrated whiteboard and presentation recording.
- Automatic conversion to JPG/GIF or to Flash (specify JPG/GIF or Flash): lJ/G
- Integrates live annotation: YES
- Preview thumbnails: NO
- Unattended delivery: NO
- Audio enabled (can add audio to presentation): NO
- Multiple presentations pre-upload: YES
- Interactive slide and gathering of viewer feedback: NO
- Full screen: NO
- PowerPoint Transition preservation: NO
- URL: http://www.ivocalize.com/
- Cost: From $20/month (5 users) to $1200/month (1000 users)
Our reviews:
The Online Audio Interview Recorder: Skype Recorder vs. iVocalize
December 25, 2004
Cost-Effective Web Conferencing Software With Integrated VoIP And Recording
January 05, 2004
Convoq
Convoq's products are Flash-based online meeting systems featuring rich media meeting capabilities that include text chat, VoIP audio, video, screen sharing, PowerPoint presentations, record and playback, and now remote desktop control capabilities and whiteboarding.
- Automatic conversion to JPG/GIF or to Flash (specify JPG/GIF or Flash): YES
- Integrates live annotation: YES
- Preview thumbnails: NO
- Unattended delivery: NO
- Audio enabled (can add audio to presentation): NO
- Multiple presentations pre-upload: NO
- Interactive slide and gathering of viewer feedback: NO
- Full screen: YES
- PowerPoint Transition preservation: YES
- URL: http://www.convoq.com
- Cost: From $495 to $19200
Our reviews:
Convoq Does It Better: ASAP 2.0
December 7, 2004
Convoq Does Large Web Conferencing Too
October 18, 2004
Online Collaboration: Convoq Shares Its Vision
September 24, 2004
WebEx Presentation Studio
WebEx Presentation Studio allows anyone to instantly create rich multimedia presentations with easy-to-use authoring and narration tools. With this tool anyone can create and deliver high-impact multimedia content for on-demand presentations over the Web. Built-in authoring tools allow you to instantly create dynamic multimedia presentations by integrating PowerPoint slides, video, audio, images and text.
- Automatic conversion to JPG/GIF or to Flash (specify JPG/GIF or Flash): YES
- Integrates live annotation: NO
- Preview thumbnails: NO
- Unattended delivery: N/A
- Audio enabled (can add audio to presentation): YES
- Multiple presentations pre-upload: YES
- Interactive slide and gathering of viewer feedback: NO
- Full screen: YES
- PowerPoint Transition preservation: N/A
- URL: http://www.webex.com/solutions/web-presentation-svc.html
- Cost: N/A
Our review:
Secure Remote PC Access: Access Anywhere by WebEx
October 29, 2004
Completely web-based presentation tools and services (nothing to install)
PresenterNet
PresenterNet is a Web-based presentation center that permits remote audience members to view your PowerPoint slides remotely during a phone-guided presentation. PresenterNet's supports upload of Microsoft PowerPoint files, JPEG and GIF images, Flash files and provides an automatic built-in online slide library to facilitate archival, re-use and delivery of individual slides across different presentations.
- Automatic conversion to JPG/GIF or to Flash (specify JPG/GIF or Flash): IF
- Integrates live annotation: YES
- Preview thumbnails: YES
- Unattended delivery: YES
- Audio enabled (can add audio to presentation): NO
- Multiple presentations pre-upload: YES
- Interactive slide and gathering of viewer feedback: YES
- Full screen: YES
- PowerPoint Transition preservation: YES
- URL: http://www.presenternet.com
- Cost: From $39.95/month to $59.95/month
InstantPresenter
InstantPresenter is an online live presentation system that provides an effective way to upload and deliver live PowerPoint presentations on the Web. The new service also integrates an audio-video stream going from the presenter to all participants. InstantPresenter is fully cross-platform and can be used easily with both PCs and Macs. Text chat and an interactive group whiteboard are well integrated. InstantPresenter pricing makes this system accessible to professionals and SOHO users of all kinds. A free try-out is immediately accessibile.
- Automatic conversion to JPG/GIF or to Flash (specify JPG/GIF or Flash): IJ/G
- Integrates live annotation: YES
- Preview thumbnails: YES
- Unattended delivery: NO
- Audio enabled (can add audio to presentation): NO
- Multiple presentations pre-upload: NO
- Interactive slide and gathering of viewer feedback: NO
- Full screen: NO
- PowerPoint Transition preservation: NO
- URL: https://www.instantpresenter.com
- Cost: From $49 to $599
Our review:
Deliver Online Presentations Across Platforms, Browsers And Cost-Effectively: InstantPresenter
March 29, 2004
OnlinePRESENTER
OnlinePRESENTER was created to be the easiest and most cost effective way to present your PowerPoint over the web to anyone, anywhere in the world. It is ideal for a wide range of applications, such as meetings, remote product and service demonstrations, training and distance learning, to name just a few. OnlinePRESENTER is not usage based. You pay one low annual fee for as many presentations as you'd like to give.
- Automatic conversion to JPG/GIF or to Flash (specify JPG/GIF or Flash): YES
- Integrates live annotation: NO
- Preview thumbnails: NO
- Unattended delivery: NO
- Audio enabled (can add audio to presentation): N/A
- Multiple presentations pre-upload: YES
- Interactive slide and gathering of viewer feedback: YES
- Full screen: YES
- PowerPoint Transition preservation: YES
- URL: http://www.presentationpro.com/
- Cost: $299 per year
Vyew
Vyew is a web-based screen sharing and live annotation tool. Its features include live desktop sharing, whiteboard and the capability to present files to your audience from whatever platform, since you only need a compatible browser. Vyew users are provided a unique teleconferencing bridge number that all presenters and attendees can call into. This is a free teleconferencing service (callers only pay for the toll, if any).The current version is free to use.
- Automatic conversion to JPG/GIF or to Flash (specify JPG/GIF or Flash): IJ/G
- Integrates live annotation: YES
- Preview thumbnails: NO
- Unattended delivery: NO
- Audio enabled (can add audio to presentation): NO
- Multiple presentations pre-upload: YES
- Interactive slide and gathering of viewer feedback: NO
- Full screen: NO
- PowerPoint Transition preservation: NO
- URL: http://www.vyew.com/
- Cost: FREE
Our reviews:
Screen Sharing And Live Annotation Get Better: Vyew
April 5, 2006
Screen Sharing And Live Annotation Make A Step Forward: Vyew 2.0 Pre-Release - Video
September 21, 2006
Spreed
Spreed is a service that allows you to perform remote presentations and organize distance seminars and conferences. You can access it both from PC and Mac and it is free to use up to three participants. Spreed integrates whiteboard, chat, video conferencing, screen sharing and file transfer.
- Automatic conversion to JPG/GIF or to Flash (specify JPG/GIF or Flash): IF
- Integrates live annotation: NO
- Preview thumbnails: NO
- Unattended delivery: YES
- Audio enabled (can add audio to presentation): NO
- Multiple presentations pre-upload: YES
- Interactive slide and gathering of viewer feedback: NO
- Full screen: NO
- PowerPoint Transition preservation: NO
- URL: http://spreed.com
- Cost: From Free (3 Partecipants) to EUR 4599 (1000 P.)
Slide
Slide is a desktop program that indexes photos on the user's hard drive, automatically groups them into channels, and plays them back via an always-on ticker interface. Slide provides an innovative scrolling "photo playback" model, users can rediscover and enjoy images they would rarely see otherwise. Users can choose to share any photo or invite both registered and unregistered friends and family to subscribe to entire channels of photos. You can also put Slide on any website or blog so others can watch, too. Slide requires download and it's free for Windows and Mac.
- Automatic conversion to JPG/GIF or to Flash (specify JPG/GIF or Flash): YES
- Integrates live annotation: NO
- Preview thumbnails: N/A
- Unattended delivery: NO
- Audio enabled (can add audio to presentation): NO
- Multiple presentations pre-upload: YES
- Interactive slide and gathering of viewer feedback: NO
- Full screen: N/A
- PowerPoint Transition preservation: YES
- URL: http://www.slide.com
- Cost: FREE
Slidestory
Slidestory lets you share pictures that you can narrate with your voice. With Slidestory, you can give a presentation and tell a story. Each photo in a slideshow comes with the option to add a voice narrated mp3 audio file, optional tags, and text captions. To use the application requires signing up, downloading free Windows Publisher (not the same thing as Microsoft's publishing application) client program and attaching a microphone to your computer.
- Automatic conversion to JPG/GIF or to Flash (specify JPG/GIF or Flash): YES
- Integrates live annotation: NO
- Preview thumbnails: NO
- Unattended delivery: NO
- Audio enabled (can add audio to presentation): YES
- Multiple presentations pre-upload: YES
- Interactive slide and gathering of viewer feedback: NO
- Full screen: NO
- PowerPoint Transition preservation: N/A
- URL: http://www.slidestory.com/
- Cost: FREE
Zoho Show
Zoho Show is an online tool to create, edit, publish, and show presentations. You can import Microsoft PowerPoint (.ppt, .pps) or OpenOffice Presentation (.sxi). Zoho Show allows you to edit presentations on-the-fly using a simple WYSIWYG editor. You can also choose publicly shared images from your Flickr account into your presentation. Zoho Show enables to perform remote presentations with complete control for the presenter. The presenter can see the participants in the presentation. Zoho Show is completely web-based, so you don't need to download or install anything. All you need is a browser (either Firefox or Internet Explorer) and internet connection.
- Automatic conversion to JPG/GIF or to Flash (specify JPG/GIF or Flash): YES
- Integrates live annotation: NO
- Preview thumbnails: NO
- Unattended delivery: N/A
- Audio enabled (can add audio to presentation): NO
- Multiple presentations pre-upload: YES
- Interactive slide and gathering of viewer feedback: NO
- Full screen: NO
- PowerPoint Transition preservation: NO
- URL: http://zohoshow.com/
- Cost: FREE
vMix
PJ180 is vMix new slideshow creator, enabling everyone to create great photo and image slideshows fully online and with from any computer type. Users can create truly effective image slideshows with titles, transition and effects, without needing to download or install any software on their computer, and vMix SlideShows provides also a license-free music library that users can tap into at no extra cost.
- Automatic conversion to JPG/GIF or to Flash (specify JPG/GIF or Flash): YES
- Integrates live annotation: NO
- Preview thumbnails: NO
- Unattended delivery: NO
- Audio enabled (can add audio to presentation): YES
- Multiple presentations pre-upload: YES
- Interactive slide and gathering of viewer feedback: YES
- Full screen: NO
- PowerPoint Transition preservation: NO
- URL: http://www.vmix.com/
- Cost: FREE
Our review:
Online Slideshow Creator Makes Photo Stories: vMix
May 12, 2006
RockYou
RockYou is a photo slideshow creator that requires no registration to be used. There no limits to the number of photos you can upload. However, they must be in jpeg, gif, or png format and less than 3 MB in size. There is also no limit to the number of slideshows you can make.
- Automatic conversion to JPG/GIF or to Flash (specify JPG/GIF or Flash): YES
- Integrates live annotation: NO
- Preview thumbnails: NO
- Unattended delivery: NO
- Audio enabled (can add audio to presentation): NO
- Multiple presentations pre-upload: YES
- Interactive slide and gathering of viewer feedback: NO
- Full screen: YES
- PowerPoint Transition preservation: NO
- URL: http://www.rockyou.com/
- Cost: FREE
Flickrshow
Flickrshow provides you with the simplest way of displaying your Flickr photosets on your own website. It is simple to install, completely free and doesn't require Flash or any server side programming knowledge. You can change the theme of the presentation window and choose from different colors.
- Automatic conversion to JPG/GIF or to Flash (specify JPG/GIF or Flash): YES
- Integrates live annotation: NO
- Preview thumbnails: NO
- Unattended delivery: NO
- Audio enabled (can add audio to presentation): NO
- Multiple presentations pre-upload: NO
- Interactive slide and gathering of viewer feedback: NO
- Full screen: NO
- PowerPoint Transition preservation: NO
- URL: http://www.flickrshow.com/
- Cost: FREE
Gliffy
Gliffy is a Web-based application for drawing and sharing documents containing charts, diagrams and other visual information displays. Think of Gliffy as a Web-based Microsoft Visio application where you can edit and save revisions of your documents with others. A presenter might find it easier to draw with Gliffy and then import Gliffy-created images into PowerPoint to complete the presentation.
- Automatic conversion to JPG/GIF or to Flash (specify JPG/GIF or Flash): NO
- Integrates live annotation: YES
- Preview thumbnails: NO
- Unattended delivery: NO
- Audio enabled (can add audio to presentation): NO
- Multiple presentations pre-upload: YES
- Interactive slide and gathering of viewer feedback: NO
- Full screen: YES
- PowerPoint Transition preservation: NO
- URL: http://www.gliffy.com/
- Cost: FREE
ReplayHQ
ReplayHQ is a service that allows you to upload your ready-made presentation and to add voice to it through a phone call. Not only ReplayHQ makes it very easy for North American customers to add narration to their presentations by talking live on the phone while selecting the slide to record on their screen, but it also converts the presentation in a very effective streaming format, which can be accessed by any computer or browser and which can be replayed at any time after the live event.
- Automatic conversion to JPG/GIF or to Flash (specify JPG/GIF or Flash): NO
- Integrates live annotation: NO
- Preview thumbnails: NO
- Unattended delivery: NO
- Audio enabled (can add audio to presentation): YES
- Multiple presentations pre-upload: YES
- Interactive slide and gathering of viewer feedback: NO
- Full screen: NO
- PowerPoint Transition preservation: YES
- URL: http://www.replayhq.com/
- Cost: FREE
Brainshark
Brainshark is a suite of applications that enables users to create web presentations. With nothing more than PowerPoint and a telephone, any business person can create and deliver online presentations and learning courses that are available on-demand at the convenience of their audience. Brainshark gives you the capability to deliver rapid eLearning, launch customized lead generation campaigns, and create detailed activity reports. You can see how much of your message has been viewed, how long it was viewed, and by whom
- Automatic conversion to JPG/GIF or to Flash (specify JPG/GIF or Flash): IF
- Integrates live annotation: NO
- Preview thumbnails: NO
- Unattended delivery: YES
- Audio enabled (can add audio to presentation): YES
- Multiple presentations pre-upload: NO
- Interactive slide and gathering of viewer feedback: NO
- Full screen: NO
- PowerPoint Transition preservation: NO
- URL: http://www.brainshark.com/
- Cost: From $50/month to $200/month
Our review:
On-Demand Rich-Media Presentations For The Enterprise: Brainshark
November 12, 2004
Acrobat Connect Professional
Acrobat Connect Professional is the complete web communications solution that enables live online meetings, virtual classes, and group collaboration, allowing organizations to effectively share a wide range of content, including Microsoft PowerPoint slides, live and recorded video, Adobe Flash content, live screen-sharing, application sharing, audio, and multiuser text chat.
- Automatic conversion to JPG/GIF or to Flash (specify JPG/GIF or Flash): IF
- Integrates live annotation: YES
- Preview thumbnails: YES
- Unattended delivery: YES
- Audio enabled (can add audio to presentation): YES
- Multiple presentations pre-upload: YES
- Interactive slide and gathering of viewer feedback: NO
- Full screen: YES
- PowerPoint Transition preservation: YES
- URL: http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobatconnect/
- Cost: From $375/month to $750/month
Our review:
Online Collaboration And SOHO Web Conferencing: Acrobat Connect Is The New Reference
December 7, 2006
Empressr
Empressr is an Ajax/Flash-based web application that lets you create, share and access presentations online. Empressr enables you to incorporate rich media features, like streaming video and animation, to create and share the most dynamic presentations possible. At the moment you can create and save up to five presentations. Currently, it is not possible to download/export/view presentations in any other application. Empressr is free to use.
- Automatic conversion to JPG/GIF or to Flash (specify JPG/GIF or Flash): Flash
- Integrates live annotation: YES
- Preview thumbnails: NO
- Unattended delivery: NO
- Audio enabled (can add audio to presentation): YES
- Multiple presentations pre-upload: YES
- Interactive slide and gathering of viewer feedback: YES
- Full screen: NO
- PowerPoint Transition preservation: NO
- URL: http://www.empressr.com/
- Cost: Free
Spresent
Spresent is a web-based presentations application based on Flash. With Spresent you can create and edit high-quality Flash presentations online. You can send presentations via e-mail or publish them on your web site or blog. The presenter can use advanced vector graphics animation based on Flash player. It is possible to create headlines, lists, charts and tables. Free to use.
- Automatic conversion to JPG/GIF or to Flash (specify JPG/GIF or Flash): Flash
- Integrates live annotation: NO
- Preview thumbnails: YES
- Unattended delivery: YES(via email or HTML/Embed)
- Audio enabled (can add audio to presentation): YES
- Multiple presentations pre-upload: YES
- Interactive slide and gathering of viewer feedback: YES
- Full screen: YES
- PowerPoint Transition preservation: NO
- URL: http://www.spresent.com/
- Cost: Free
Other alternatives
S5
S5 (Simple Standards-based Slide Show System) is a way to create web-based presentations by utilizing open standard protocols and editing pre-existing CSS-based web page templates. S5 presentations are simply highly "intelligent" CSS-based web templates that can be created, edited and modified with any standard text editor. S5 is a slide show format based entirely on XHTML, CSS, and JavaScript. With one file, anyone can customize a fully-web-compatible slide show while having also a printer-friendly version.
- Automatic conversion to JPG/GIF or to Flash (specify JPG/GIF or Flash): NO
- Integrates live annotation: NO
- Preview thumbnails: NO
- Unattended delivery: NO
- Audio enabled (can add audio to presentation): NO
- Multiple presentations pre-upload: YES
- Interactive slide and gathering of viewer feedback: NO
- Full screen: NO
- PowerPoint Transition preservation:
- URL: http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/s5/
- Cost: FREE
Our review:
Web Presentations? PowerPoint Not Required - S5 Is The Answer
January 17, 2006
HTML Slidy
HTML Slidy is a particular slideshow creator that is completely based on XHTML. You can advance to next slide with mouse click or space bar. It is possible to move forward/backward between slides with Cursor Left, Cursor Right, Pg Up and Pg Dn keys. The font size is automatically adjusted to match the browser's window width.
- Automatic conversion to JPG/GIF or to Flash (specify JPG/GIF or Flash): N/A
- Integrates live annotation: NO
- Preview thumbnails: NO
- Unattended delivery: NO
- Audio enabled (can add audio to presentation): NO
- Multiple presentations pre-upload: YES
- Interactive slide and gathering of viewer feedback: NO
- Full screen: YES
- PowerPoint Transition preservation: NO
- URL: http://www.w3.org/Talks/Tools/Slidy/
- Cost: FREE
Opera Show
Opera Show is a presentation tool that can turn your web pages into presentations. Taking regular HTML, and adding a little magic CSS, the web page is transformed to look more like a PowerPoint document. The presentations will appear as a full presentation in Opera with a simple press of the F11 key. Requires Opera 7.2 or higher.
- Automatic conversion to JPG/GIF or to Flash (specify JPG/GIF or Flash): YES
- Integrates live annotation: NO
- Preview thumbnails: NO
- Unattended delivery: NO
- Audio enabled (can add audio to presentation): NO
- Multiple presentations pre-upload: YES
- Interactive slide and gathering of viewer feedback: NO
- Full screen: YES
- PowerPoint Transition preservation: YES
- URL: http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/operaStuff/operaShowPresentation.html
- Cost: FREE
Web Presentation advanced tools
The following tools allow you to convert your PowerPoint presentations in videos or encode them in other formats that are viewable on the Web. Among their features there are also audio recording and advanced editing options.
Microsoft Producer
Microsoft Producer for Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003, the current version of this popular add-on for Microsoft PowerPoint, can help you easily capture, synchronize, and publish audio, video, slides, and images. With Producer 2003 you can create dynamic presentations and training cost-effectively. At the same time, you can increase comprehension and the number of people you reach.
- Automatic conversion to JPG/GIF or to Flash (specify JPG/GIF or Flash): N/A
- Integrates live annotation: NO
- Preview thumbnails: NO
- Unattended delivery: NO
- Audio enabled (can add audio to presentation): YES
- Multiple presentations pre-upload: YES
- Interactive slide and gathering of viewer feedback: NO
- Full screen: N/A
- PowerPoint Transition preservation: YES
- URL: http://www.microsoft.com/office/powerpoint/producer/prodinfo/overview.mspx
- Cost: FREE
Camtasia
Camtasia records infact actual movies of your screen activites, which while greatly optimized and compressed, do generally create relatively very large files. The Camtasia suite of tools makes it easy to record, edit and publish high fidelity, compressed videos for computer based training, technical support solutions and product demonstrations. The program is designed to fully optimize such large files, by compressing them in unique ways, and providing facilities to add voice narrations or comments through a complementary application called "Dub it".
- Automatic conversion to JPG/GIF or to Flash (specify JPG/GIF or Flash): YES
- Integrates live annotation: NO
- Preview thumbnails: NO
- Unattended delivery: NO
- Audio enabled (can add audio to presentation): YES
- Multiple presentations pre-upload: YES
- Interactive slide and gathering of viewer feedback: NO
- Full screen: YES
- PowerPoint Transition preservation: N/A
- URL: http://www.techsmith.com/
- Cost: $299.00
Articulate Presenter
Articulate Presenter is a powerful PowerPoint to Flash conversion tool that integrates the ability to add voice narration, playback controls and several other extra features to your existing presentation. By converting PowerPoint to Flash you have a great number of advantages which greatly facilitate your ability to distribute and deliver effectively your communications via the Internet.
- Automatic conversion to JPG/GIF or to Flash (specify JPG/GIF or Flash): YES
- Integrates live annotation: NO
- Preview thumbnails: YES
- Unattended delivery: NO
- Audio enabled (can add audio to presentation): NO
- Multiple presentations pre-upload: YES
- Interactive slide and gathering of viewer feedback: NO
- Full screen: YES
- PowerPoint Transition preservation: YES
- URL: http://www.articulate.com
- Cost: From $999 to $1,398
Our review:
From PowerPoint To Rich-Media Showcase: Articulate Presenter Does It
December 10, 2004
QPresenter
The QPresenter packages are a collection of time-saving tools, presentation aids and powerful slide & presentation management options. With the QPresenter suite you can manage secure corporate PowerPoint presentation delivery. Password-protect and encrypt your presentations, then lock down approved slides for distribution to staff.
- Automatic conversion to JPG/GIF or to Flash (specify JPG/GIF or Flash): YES
- Integrates live annotation: N/A
- Preview thumbnails: NO
- Unattended delivery: YES
- Audio enabled (can add audio to presentation): NO
- Multiple presentations pre-upload: YES
- Interactive slide and gathering of viewer feedback: NO
- Full screen: YES
- PowerPoint Transition preservation: N/A
- URL: http://www.qpresenter.com/
- Cost: From $239 to $399
Resources about PowerPoint and Web Presentations
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This information has been researched and collected by Robin Good in conjunction and support of the LANCELOT Language Research Project funded by the European Commission under the LEONARDO DA VINCI, Language Competence II programme.
This mini-guide has been written for online teachers, trainers and language facilitators that need to navigate the vast sea of options and alternatives available to them. In no way this mini-guide intends to be a comprehensive and complete list of all tools and technologies for a specific use.
It is simply an initial starting guide for novice online tutors needing to understand within the least time possible which tools and technologies could be most appropriate for their online language training needs.
Please utilize the Comments section below to add and provide references, info and links to other relevant tools that could be included in this mini-guide.
